One way to describe this is is, dang, that's brilliant (and legal). Jon Stewart, famed financial skeptic, had a different take on the Daily Show last night.

"Now I'm sure you're asking yourself, 'Hey, I think I saw something like that in Goodfellas, when they get insurance on a restaurant and then deliberately blow the restaurant up," Stewart says. "But in Goodfellas, it was illegal. In the financial world, it's above board."

Later in the segment, correspondent Samantha Bee interviews a reporter at the New York Times, skewering the paper for failing to cover the story. She also meets with members of the BuzzFeed business team to spice up an otherwise dry CDS story with some Nicolas Cage GIFs.